Collar-button.



PATENTED OCT. 22, 1907/ F. n. SMALL. COLLAR BUTTON. APPLICATION IILBD OGT.19, 1905.

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ATTORNEYS FRANK D. SMALL, OF WEST PARIS, MAINE.

COLLAR-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1907.

Application filed October 19,1905. Serial No. 283,491.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK D. SMALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Paris, in the county of Oxford, in the State of Maine, have invented a useful Improvement in Collar-Buttons, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful iniprovernents in collar buttons, and has for itsobject to provide a button that is very simple and cheap in construction and one that is effective in use.

With these objects in view my invention consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the claims and shown in the accompanying drawing in which;

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved button. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the head. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the shoe. Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional view of the shoe.

Referring to the drawing A indicates the shoe of the button which is provided with a tubular shank B, having wings B which are adapted to pass through the button hole and prevent the shoe from turning. The shank B is provided with an inwardly projecting flange 13 adjacent its lower end the under side of which is formed with oppositely arranged raised portions hav' ing beveled sides. These portions are arranged at right angles to the wings of the shank and are provided with grooves B, for the purpose hereinafter described.

The head 0 is of the same width as the shank B but is formed with elongated turned down ends 0 which are adapted to be turned cross-wise of the button hole after passing through and securely hold the same in place. A solid shank C is formed integral with the circular shoulder C of the head and is adapted to fit Within the tubular shank and extend past the flange B and to be securely locked therein by a pin G which is adapted to fit within the grooves B and lock the head C in a cross-wise position. A coil spring D surrounds the solid shank 0 in the tubular shank and has the tendency to throw the head outwardly and to securely hold the pin in the grooves.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a collar button, the combination with a shoe having a central opening provided with an upwardly extending tubular shank having oppositely disposed wings, of an id wardly projecting annular flange formed in said shank adjacent the lower end on a plane above the shoe, said flange having oppositely arranged raised portions provided with central grooves and beveled sides on its under side, two of said groves being parallel with the wings of the shank, an elongated head provided with a shoulder having a solid shank adapted to fit in said tubular shank, a pin secured in the ends of said shank adapted to fit in the grooves of the flange said pin being parallel with the elon gated head and a coiled spring arranged on said shank between the shoulder of the head and the flange of the tubular shank, for the purpose described.

' FRANK D. SMALL.

Witnesses WALTER H. SMALL, ALBERT L. BOWKER. 

